Flying Sea Dragons · Persefone

43 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 1:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
43
LENGTH
1:19
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-26, 28-29 and 32-34, and 2 more places -- 41.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
FLYING SEA DRAGONS · BAR 23
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37 and 2 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 35-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

43 bars across 6 sections: 19 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-29.

PART S2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHS2S4S5A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flying Sea Dragons?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Flying Sea Dragons hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

43 bars, about 1:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Flying Sea Dragons?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 43 BARS ANALYSED
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